Transformation Literacy Conference week
2025 Theme: Empowering Metrics and Enlivening Narratives for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals
4 April 4:00 pm — 7 April 2025 4:30 pm

- conference days: 4 April (in-person), 7 April (online)
- in-person and online networking opportunities
- free of charge for ticket holders
Registration status: OPEN

The case for change

Human activity is exceeding planetary boundaries, the very systems that make life on Earth possible. Food, water, and energy systems are threatened, as well as healthcare, education, and social services, and democracy, justice, and peace. Metrics that foster resource extraction instead of regeneration and narratives that highlight dominance and glorify past achievements instead of partnerships and future possibilities are still commonplace in many areas. As a result of the obvious gap between what is needed for people and planet, and what is actually done, polarization is spreading all over the place.

Therefore and with the urgency of only five years to go to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, efforts to drive sustainability transformations need empowering metrics for goal setting and measuring progress, as well as enlivening narratives that offer future perspectives and create shared responsibility. This year, CLI’s Transformation Literacy Conference is identifying ways how sustainable development can be measured through metrics that ensure transparency, offer feedback systems and responsive criteria, and how sustainable development goals can be embedded into narratives that are empowering, depolarize societies, and serve humanity and the planet.

You are free to choose whether your would only like to participate a single session, or the whole conference. With your ticket you have access to all online sessions and networking opportunities, and you can choose whether you would like to join us in-person for the conference kick-off event in Potsdam, Germany (travel and accommodation is on your own expense).

What is Transformation Literacy - a CLI perspective (part of the TLConference 2024)
Sessions 4 - 7 April

Friday, 4 April 2025 – 4:00 – 8:00pm CET in Potsdam, Germany (doors open at 3:30pm)

Conference Kick-Off and Transformative Partnership Award Event:

Who will be the winner of the Transformative Partnership Award 2025 and which new projects and initiatives can you expect from CLI? (in-person event for invited guests only)

Speakers for this session will be announced soon.

Monday, 7 April 2025 – 12:00 – 1:30pm CET (TLC online welcome session at 11:30am)

Empowering Metrics for Sustainable Development Goal Achievement:

How can metrics and feedback systems support clarity and enhance progress towards sustainable development?

Speakers for this session will be announced soon.

Monday, 7 April 2025 – 2:00 – 3:30pm CET (wrap-up session until 4:00pm)

Enlivening Narratives for Sustainable Development Goal Achievement: How can we create stories of possibilities that create resonance for all relevant stakeholders for implementing sustainable development?

Transformation Literacy Conference week 2025 - registration

Register now for CLI's Transformation Literacy Conference week 2025: Empowering Metrics and Enlivening Narratives for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals
4-7 April 2025
(in-person and online)

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Take-Aways

YOUR KEY TAKE-AWAYS FROM THE TRANSFORMATION LITERACY CONFERENCE 2025

  • Learn more about Transformation Literacy in the context of Metrics and Narratives for SDG Achievement
  • Get to know experts and practitioners and explore their findings
  • Connect with high-profile professionals from the civil society-, public-, private-, and research sector
  • Develop your network for strategizing transformative change (we expect up to 300 conference participants during the TLC week 2025)
  • Contribute to SDG implementation and the systemic change from dominator to partnership models.
Highlights of last year's conference
Transformation Literacy Conference 2024: Kick-off in Potsdam 19 April

#TLC 2024 in figures

426 registrations – 306 participations – 80 countries represented

Registration and participation details (last update 30 April 2024):

  • 393 online registrations + 33 in-person kick-off registrations
  • 244 online session participants + 60 in-person participants (47 in Germany for Kick-off Potsdam and Watch Party Konstanz + 13 in Ukraine for Watch Party Kyiv)
  • 80 countries: 37% Europe – 31% Africa – 16% Asia – 14% The Americas – 2% Oceania
  • Professional level of participants: 8% Executives, Management, Directors – 18% Middle-Management, Project Coordinators – 66% Staff, Consultants – 3% Students, Trainees, Interns – 6% did not disclose their professional level
  • Sectors represented: Civil Society 52% – Private Sector 20% – Research & Education 15% – Public Sector 14%

Organisations (selection): Action Medeor, ADRA, Africa Emancipation Movement, German Chambers of Foreign Trade (AHK), Ahmed Kathrada Foundation, American University of Central Asia, BMWBF (Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Research Austria), Bonn University, Brandeis University, Brunel University London, Cairo University, Catholic Relief Services, CARE, CGIAR, CENN, Chôra Foundation, Community Alliance for Global Justice, DANIDA, DARPE, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum, Engagement Global, Fair Toys Organisation, FAO – Food and Agriculture Organization, Foundation for Good Governance and Democratic Initiative, Fukui University of Technology, Future4care, GFA Consulting Group, Gesellschaft für International Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Global Innovation Gathering, Global Knowledge Initiative, Humana, Idealist.org, Institute of Circular Economy Development , International Evaluation Academy, International University of Management Namibia, KISK Masaryk University, Kozminski University, Land for Life, Leibniz IÖR, Lidl, Mercy Corps, Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services Brazil, Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development Madagscar, Ministry of Finance Tunisia, MIS GmbH, NABU, Network Weaving Institute, Palawan State University, Pan African University, ProjectTogether, Shandong University of Finance and Economics, Rhodes University, Rights and Rice Foundation, Sierra Leone Investment and Export Promotion Agency (SLIEPA), Society for Planet and Prosperity, Soros Foundation, Sustainable Development Institute (SDI), Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), Telkom University, Terre des hommes, Transformations Community, German Environment Agency (UBA), Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung (UFZ), UNDP, UN ECLAC, UNESCO, UN Habitat, UNSSC, UN Volunteers (UNV), Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, University of Adelaide, University of Nigeria, University of New South Wales, Weltfriedensdienst, Welthungerhilfe, Western University Canada, Wilde Ganzen, WWF, York University

LESSONS & INSIGHTS from Localizing SDGs (Transformation Literacy Conference 2024 Wrap-up Session)

What participants said last year

Quotes from the 2023 TLC edition
Conference hosts
Meet your conference host Elisabeth
Executive Director and Senior Project Manager at CLI Germany

Your conference co-host will be Elisabeth Kuehn.

Learn more about Elisabeth
Meet your conference host Dominic
Managing Partner and Lead Faculty at CLI Spain

Your conference co-host will be Dominic Stucker.

Learn more about Dominic
Transformation Literacy Conference week 2025 - registration

Register now for CLI's Transformation Literacy Conference week 2025: Empowering Metrics and Enlivening Narratives for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals
4-7 April 2025
(in-person and online)

Register now
Conference partners

The Transformation Literacy Conference is organized by CLI. It is only possible thanks to the support of partners and media that are stated here (the partner list will be updated regularly):

Organizer
Collective Leadership Institute

Be part of creating a world that works for 100% of humanity and the planet

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Partner
DevelopmentAid

Business Intelligence for Development

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Partner
FTV

FTV is a film and TV production company based in Berlin

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Partner
NachhaltigeJobs.de

Seit 2012 das Portal für Karriere mit Sinn.

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Partner
Global Goals Yearbook

Sustainable Impact Matters

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Partner
Transformations Community

A Conference Series & Community Of Practice

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Partner
VENROB

VENROB ist die Arbeitsplattform für entwicklungspolitische Vereine, Gruppen, Initiativen und Eine-Welt-Läden im Land Brandenburg

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Partner
Nachhaltigkeitsplattform Brandenburg

Kommunikationsforum und Netzwerk für die vielfältigen Initiativen zur Nachhaltigkeit im Land Brandenburg

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Partner
tbd*

Supports those who are determined to make a career out of changing the world.

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Partner
The Jena Declaration

The Jena Declaration on the Cultural and Regional Dimensions of Sustainability

Learn more about the Jena Declaration